ematusov@udel.edu writes:
>It is also a question about our own responsibility. I do not want to see
>"collateral damage" on CNN in a few weeks or months caused by US
>military actions in the war on terrorism. The questions are what it is
>about, how we participate and contribute to it, how to stop a cycle of
>terrorism?
>
>What do you think?
>
>Eugene
brava eugene. brava.
while i don't believe that scholars can play any substantial role in
ending terrorism,
i think our responsibility is to avoid the seduction of polemics, anger,
indignation,
to resist taking sides or being persuaded by one or another's singular
view, and try to learn more about what we don't yet know, let alone
assume we understand what exceeds us.
diane
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"Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a
cigarette in a gutter - all are stories. But which is the true story? That
I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard,
waiting for someone to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making
this note and then another, I do not cling to life."
Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931.
(...life clings to me...)
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
vancouver, bc
mailing address: 46 broadview avenue, montreal, qc, H9R 3Z2
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